2019 Nissan Altima
This year drew an ordinary 226 complaints for a Nissan Altima — the model's median is 424. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.1% of them mention volume, against 1.7% across the other years of this generation.
First year of a new generation. The Nissan Altima was redesigned for 2019. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 226 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 424 |
| Involving a crash | 22 |
| Involving a fire | 5 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 30 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- volume — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the other years of this generation (4.2×). Owners wrote it as: volume, radio, doesn work, station.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
While driving and listening to the radio, at a comfortable level of 8, the radio will automatically spike to a volume level of 45+ This is very dangerous. Chevy trucks had the same problem and issued some recalls. Will or should Nissen do the same I believe th…
My vehicle radio is having issues with the volume knob that is crazy, when moving the volume up the volume goes down or up or to maximum, basically it is not working as expected, I found a voluntary recall about it with reference NTB19-077 CAMPAIGN ID #: R1911…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V169000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 19V316000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 18V922000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 19V235000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 19V654000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 23V628000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V437000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Nissan Altima was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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